Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Chapter 755 It’s a long story

It’s a long story. Gu Dahua knew that Chang Qing might not have had the chance to mention to Gu Erzhu that the Qi family wanted to take advantage of this trip to complete the “betrothal” ceremony.

He first quietly reported to Zhou Sishun that Mr. Qi Sanye had secretly come to Zhou's house last night to "add betrothal gifts", and Zhou Sishun only learned about it when he returned to Zhou's house this morning. He made a long and brief report.

He then stretched out his right hand and pointed outside, indicating that he should go and invite Chang Qing and his son in to talk about it first. Only Chang Qing, the chief butler, knew the details of what was going on.

Unlike him, he rushed to the farm outside the city when the city gate opened this morning and did not enter the city until dark. He only heard Zhou Sishun mention it a few words before coming here.

"...My master hasn't seen you for a long time. He heard that you ran away with the butler before you even entered the house. He guessed that the butler must have asked you to come here for something.

He originally wanted to come over, but it happened that the scholar (Zhou Changping) came to see him, so he asked me to come and say hello to you, and not to rush to make arrangements to go back in two days. "

Gu Erzhu nodded to show that he understood. He asked Gu Dahua to call Chang Qing and his father in, while wondering what Master Qi San meant.
Before coming here, it was agreed that the two families would make the decision first, and then after two or three years when the children would be almost ready to get married, they would submit the betrothal gifts and arrange the wedding date together.

He had just invited the highly respected Madam Gao and the official matchmaker to go to the Qi Mansion to propose marriage. He just needed to leave the woman's engagement invitation at home for two days as a token of his intention and then he could go back.

All right.

It's time to go through another ritual.

It seems that his Liu Lang is not only "evil-faced", but also very calculating. He really calculated what she thought. He said that she might have to pay a betrothal gift before she can go home!

Why are you in such a hurry to do something? Could it be that Mr. and Mrs. Qi are in poor health now and are afraid that their daughter will come back to mourn and delay her marriage?

its not right.

Not to mention that Mr. and Mrs. Qi are already quite old, but they looked very long-lived the past two days. Moreover, it is the mourning period for their grandparents, and their granddaughter has only been in mourning for nine months.

Not to mention nine months, even if a daughter needs to observe mourning for three years before marrying her, this has nothing to do with the betrothal gift. Wouldn't it be possible for the man to give the betrothal gift before the wedding?
"…The things have all been delivered to the house over there, so the master in law has no choice but to accept it. But if I'm not mistaken, the main reason is that after the betrothal gift is accepted, the girl's family will start preparing for marriage."

Chang Qing said, smiling meaningfully at Gu Erzhu, "When preparing for marriage, the first thing to do is to embroider the wedding dress, so it's naturally not easy to go out often to visit guests. There are some invitations that you can refuse and no one will blame you."

Gu Erzhu wanted to hold his forehead with his hand after hearing this, but he also understood the implication of Chang Qing's words.

Although the current emperor has long appointed his eldest son as crown prince according to ancestral system, none of the emperors in recent generations ascended the throne as a crown prince, and even the current emperor is not a crown prince.

There is only one throne, and the current emperor is already old. It is impossible for him to live forever. He will die sooner or later. The crown prince and the princes who disobey him will fight to the death sooner or later.

Not only was Mr. Qi Sanye afraid that his daughter would be chosen by the crown prince or one of the princes and enter the prince's backyard, he was also worried that his daughter would be involved in the dispute over the throne even after she got engaged.

"Very good!" Mr. Qi San now has no more excuses to let his daughter stay at home to embroider her wedding dress and go out as little as possible. Gu Erzhu said he was convinced.

"It may take another ten days or half a month before we can set off."

Gu Erzhu reacted quickly and soon concluded that even if he delayed for another half a month, he would still be able to get home before mid-to-late February, which would still be in time for early March.

"Don't worry, there's still time. Dajiang's marriage is a big deal. Once this is settled, you can go back with peace of mind. It just so happens that I've also found a shop that I like." Seemingly speaking, Gu Erzhu took the opportunity to mention to Chang Qing the shop that Gu Dahua had taken a fancy to during the day, and also mentioned that the shop also had a residential yard.

In front of Changqing's eldest son, he did not hide anything and said that he had just purchased four shops, two of which were in the outer city, so why did he buy more shops in the outer city.

He said frankly that this shop was different from other shops. If someone really wanted to escape to the capital to avoid a disaster one day, it would be safer to live in the imperial city, but it was not suitable for his family to squeeze in here. Even if his sixth son passed the imperial examination, it would still not be appropriate. Only the outer city would be more suitable.

After listening to Gu Erzhu's words, Chang Qing could better understand Gu Erzhu's concerns compared to his eldest son, as he had heard his daughter often mention the need to store more food because of the weather.

This house in the imperial city is surrounded by many royal residences. Living inside is safer than living in the outer city even if a natural disaster or man-made calamity occurs. However, it would be even worse if a real disaster were to happen.

At a certain point in time, it would definitely not be the prince or princess who would be pushed out to avoid disasters. It would be better for them to take refuge in the outer city where there were other courtyards and farmhouses outside the city where they could move freely.

Thinking of the height and thickness of the wall built for his girl's Yuyuan, as well as the entrance to the village which is now surrounded by workshops, he couldn't help but remember that his girl still looked exactly like his princess.

If it weren't for the princess's foresight and the fact that she had planned several hiding places early on, it would have been difficult for the young master to escape to Yangzhou Prefecture even if the princess had the help of Old Madam Gao.

As for why these were not ideas that Gu Erzhu came up with, after having been in contact with him for quite some time, Chang Qing believed that he knew his daughter's father-in-law better.

——He is indeed a smart person.

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This can be seen from the family rule that the sons of the family are not allowed to use their daughter-in-law's dowry, which he set in the beginning so that his fourth brother could successfully marry the girl from the Fang family in the town.

But because of this shrewdness, he rarely interfered with his daughter's business, especially when it came to money, he wanted to stay away from her.

In this person's words, he has two sons and they are both his flesh and blood. He is more afraid that one day he will make a mistake and do something biased towards them.

He witnessed with his own eyes the two workshops and two rows of bungalows that surrounded the entrance of the village. The boy just let the child have the final say in everything and at most asked if it was really decided.

As soon as his daughter nodded, the good father-in-law would often go over to see if there was anyone being lazy or cunning, causing his son and his young couple to spend extra money.

No matter what, he kept emphasizing to outsiders that this was a workshop run by his third daughter in law in partnership with someone else, as if he was afraid that if he didn't make a statement, his eldest daughter-in-law and her family would cause trouble in the future.

The girl from her family does have good taste. Although there are always some annoying old people in her husband's family who are not very knowledgeable, the behavior of her father-in-law, mother-in-law, uncle, sisters-in-law and sister-in-law are really impeccable so far.

Especially the son-in-law, he is such a perfect match.

Considering how much the son-in-law loves the girl now, if he can't arrive before the girl gives birth, with Doctor Lin around, I think everything should be fine.

"...We can still rush back after San Ya's sister-in-law gives birth. You don't have to go back first. Instead, Huai'an, you should take him out more often.

If nothing goes wrong, Dahua will go to Jiangnan with Hai Ge'er and Jiang Ge'er. You can take some time to tell him about the different social practices over there.

Although your brother is there, there is nothing to worry about him going there, but your brother is also busy with a lot of things, and he may not stay in Yangzhou Prefecture, but he has to be busy outside every now and then."